Autumn Bardisa, 29, of Florida, was arrested Wednesday following a seven-month-long investigation revealing she is not a registered nurse
Police in Florida arrested a 29-year-old woman after she allegedly impersonated a registered nurse and provided medical care to more than 4,400 patients at a Flagler County hospital without a valid license.
Autumn Bardisa’s alleged crimes came to light in January when hospital officials reviewing her credentials for a charge‑nurse promotion realized she held only an expired Certified Nursing Assistant license. That discovery triggered an internal investigation and ultimately led to her termination.
I’ve never understood how this is possible, but it seems like it’s always in Florida
She had a Nursing Assistant license that expired. Good nurses are really hard to find, because the work is hard, the hours are long, and the pay is shit. So she probably had a job, and nobody was checking licenses, and she was promoted and just kept working the job. She should have kept up her license, but this is a failure on the side of the employer. The hospital is responsible for making sure that employees are qualified and licensed.
You’ll notice that all the emphasis is on the individual, and she definitely engaged in fraud. She deserves the legal punishment coming her way. But the hospital was negligent and should be equally responsible for the crimes.
An NA (assistant, not a nurse) is not the same as an RN (actual nurse). Even if she kept her NA valid, she still isn’t allowed to work as an RN.
For sure, she lied on her resume. I’m saying it’s not like she wandered in off the street. Many nurse assistants get the requisite training and certification to become registered nurses, and she claimed to have done that. She provided a certificate with a different name on it, claiming that the names were different due to a marriage.
Any small amount of checking her paperwork would have immediately revealed her lies.
Agree with you 100%. It’s the hospital’s gross negligence that I’m shocked by here, to be clear
The rare Unregistered Nurse
I can fix her but she can’t fix me 😢
